iRobot Reviews

Pros

cool technology for the current time frame

Cons

need new and innovative robots

Advice to Senior Management

need more diversified robots

Pros

-Work life balance is great, because no one does their work and they just shift blame from one person in a team to another

Cons

-They haven't come out with a new robot (on their own IP) for ten years. Don't come here if you want to be working for an innovative company. They sell themselves well, but they don't live up to the hype
-Everyone here points fingers, they don't take ownership
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Advice to Senior Management

You talk a big game about talent retention, but you just had one of your biggest years for profit. Put your money where your mouth is.

Pros

buzz around the company is good

Cons

Reality inside very different from external PR

Pros

Good balance between work and home. Salaries are competitive with other robotics companies. Some real good people who want the company to succeed.

Cons

Inexperienced middle and Upper Management. Promotions are given as rewards not based on whether someone can manage. No real training for Managers, which negatively impacts the direct reports. Abilities of the Senior staff are not embraced.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your more experienced Managers and not to the wanabees that know nothing of the discipline they are speaking of. Treat your Senior employees with the respect they deserve.

Pros

A regular paycheck and not too long a commute. I'm well payed for what I do. Average place, standard benefits.

Cons

A good of compartamentalized knowledge, I always feel like management is not in touch with the rest of us and they seem very stingy with information regarding the company and the state of teh business. Presentation are staged to dispense information geared to stimulate people and it usually feels like a show and not really the truth.

Advice to Senior Management

Get us all on the same page. Personally I feel like a mushroom.

Pros

high tech, stare of the art

Cons

lots of firedrills. last minute work

Advice to Senior Management

hire more people

Pros

loose structure and casual environment, exposure to high tech. Really a good place if you work in their government contract department

Cons

structure too loose. very vague responsibility in their home department, very ineffective communication and very behind in implementing enterprise-level applicatioin.

Advice to Senior Management

invest in long-term solution instead of focusing on short-term unsustainable fixes. invest in long term relationship with quality OEM vendors

Pros

Great work environment, great responsibility, professional networking. influencing others to reach their professional potential. Creative work environment and innovative training programs.

Cons

24/7 work hours never not working, always in need of more time. the level of stress carried daily and constant need for new ideas and less cost.

Advice to Senior Management

meet more or video conference more

Pros

Lots of brilliant people in one place. Decent benefits.

Cons

For me it was the guy I reported to directly, he was an extreme micromanager, didn't allow me to work anywhere near my ability, I would do things and he would take credit for them. He fosterered an atmosphere of distrust as his only goals wer to ascend himself thru his politics. he was a master twister of the truth and perpetual manipulator. Many feared him.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay close attention to mid level management, specifically listen to the more seasoned employees as we offer lots of experience from different areas, you are not capitalizing on this by allowing the inexperienced to lead. There are too many people with titles, it just seems that everyone is a Lead or senior lead, basically everyone is a Chief and there seems to be a shrotage of indians.

Pros

We do build cool stuff. The people here are great to work with, and we get a nice amount of paid time off.

Cons

The company seems to have a distressing tendency toward doing the absolute minimum necessary to accomplish its immediate goals, with respect both to its customers and to its employees. They are also pretty bad at communicating internally.

Advice to Senior Management

Be more proactive about fixing problems and making improvements - don't wait until it becomes a crisis. Talk with your underlings about what's going on - if we hear about what the company is doing, or what's going wrong, by reading the news (or press releases), something is wrong.